Sorry thunder427.......an unforgivable mistake. I will consider myself suitably chastised. Moving on, even though you say you were careful not to over restore the car, I will bet my bottom dollar that your restoration is 'better' than the original. Should I say the workmanship is better, because I cant see you doing a shoddy job. This will be the case with all of these restored/refurbished/recreated/rehashed icons that are starting to appear now. Just take a look at these things when they were racing, even straight out of the box, some/most were as rough as guts. We just used to think differently back then. The Classic car scene didn't really get going till about 1972, although the VCC was under-way, so beautiful restorations hadn't surfaced. Once a benchmark has been set then everyone follows suit, though now, overseas, if a genuinely original car turns up, maybe as a barn find, the message is getting across...... leave it alone, and do not turn it into a Pebble Beach super star.